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==== Moving a SME 7 server installation to new hardware using the Affa rise feature ====
 
==== Moving a SME 7 server installation to new hardware using the Affa rise feature ====
 
Please see this Howto: [[Moving SME to new Hardware]]
 
Please see this Howto: [[Moving SME to new Hardware]]
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==== Restore from USB drive on new server ====
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This tip comes from http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=42412.0
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Q) I have complete backups using affa stored on a usb hard drive connected to our affa backup server. I need to restore an earlier monthly backup of our job "mailbackup" to a test server rather than back to the original system.  If I did it from the backup server I see the instructions of how to rise that server to the current backup on that server but I want to restore a point about a month ago before some strange things happened. And I want to do it on a machine that is not our backup server or our production server. I tried to figure out how but am lost in the options. My goal is to do some testing.
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A) On your testserver setup a job mailbackup identical to that on your backup server but set property RootDir to /var/affa and property status to disabled. Connect the USB drive and copy the archive of  the job mailbackup to /var/affa. Then run affa --rise mailbackup ARCHIVE
    
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